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GORDON, LEON

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 254 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GORDON, See also:LEON , originally See also:JUDAH LOEB See also:BEN See also:ASHER (1831–1892), See also:Russian-Jewish poet and novelist (See also:Hebrew), was See also:born at Wilna in 1831 and died at St See also:Petersburg in 1892. He took a leading See also:part in the See also:modern revival of the Hebrew See also:language and culture. His satires did much to rouse the Russian See also:Jews to a new sense of the reality of See also:life, and Gordon was the apostle of enlightenment in the Ghettos. His Hebrew See also:style is classical and pure. His poems were collected in four volumes, Kol See also:Shire Yehudah (St Petersburg, 1883–1884); his novels in Kol Kithbe Yehuda (See also:Odessa, x889). For his See also:works see Jewish Quarterly See also:Review, xviii. 437 seq.

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